LUCA GIORDANO

LUCA GIORDANO
Luca fa presto
NAPLES 1634 – NAPLES 1705
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO

Late Baroque printer and engraver who was apprenticed to Josep Ribera, one of the ages most gifted engravers. Giordano mastered the decorative arts and worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before living for a decade in Spain as court painter. In 1692 Giordano went to Spain at the invitation of King Charles II where he created decorative schemes at the Buen Retiro Palace, El Escorial, the sacristry of Toledo Cathedral, The Royal Palace of Aranjuez. 

Florence

In 1682–1683 Giordano painted various fresco series in Florence, including one in the dome of Corsini Chapel of the Chiesa del Carmine. In the large block occupied by the former Medici palace, he painted the ceiling of the Biblioteca Riccardiana (Allegory of Divine Wisdom) and the long gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi. The vast frescoes of the latter are contained in the 1670s gallery addition, overlooking the gardens. The planning was overseen by Alessandro Segni and commissioned by Francesco Riccardi. They include the prototypic hagiographic celebration of the Medici family in the center, surrounded by a series of interlocking narratives: allegorical figures (the Cardinal Virtues, the Elements of Nature) and mythological episodes (Neptune and Amphitrita, The Rape of Proserpine, The Triumphal procession of Bacchus, The Death of Adonis, Ceres and Triptolemus). (SOURCE: WIKI)

Court painter in Spain (1692–1702)

In 1692 Giordano worked in Spain for ten years, returning to Naples in 1702, following Charles’ death. While in Spain, he painted major decorative schemes at the Buen Retiro Palace, El Escorial, the sacristry of Toledo Cathedral, The Royal Palace of Aranjuez. (SOURCE: WIKI)

Materials

Ink on laid paper.

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